SKU: HL.362212

UPC: 840126952681. 10.5x14.0x0.036 inches.

Solo recorder part. Songs of Solitude and Night is in two movements. The first movement has text from Voluspa from the Old Edda, and is called Prelude. The text is about creation of the earth, the stars, the sun, the moon and the first people on earth, Ask and Embla. The second movement is a poem by the Faroese author William Heinesen translated into English by the Faroese author Gunnar Hoydal and is called Hogboy. The poem begins like this: Hogboy, the spectre with the cheery name, lives in the mound Maeis Hove in the Orkney island of Pomona. Here you can hear him singing bewildered songsin the dark. Playful Pomona girls are dancing in the moonlight around the old grave..